Size variable, documentation image of time based movement research work and installation, found bricks from Durham, NC and Chapel Hill, NC, brick dust, industrial era warehouse cart made of steel and wood. University of North Carolina, 2024
documentation image. This time-based work, literally and metaphorically, bears witness to the weight of silenced voices whose presence resonates in Southern architecture and history, including enslaved peoples and their descendants… 2024
documentation image…The bricks, all made between 1850 and 1950, come from sites of demolition and decay in North Carolina, becoming a conversation of forgotten stories. University of North Carolina, 2024.
documentation image, …By responding to and repositioning bricks found in the wake of development, committing to listening, and the labor of pushing, loading, unloading, stacking, moving around the space, I create a conversation with the material archive,
documentation image. The piece is never officially finished, as the lost voices, whether earthly material or human, are always beckoning us to listen, and exist all around. This piece was created with support from the UNC Southern Oral History Program Artist Residency Award. University of North Carolina, 2024
documentation image. Giving myself to this process I am creating the work, weaves together narratives in conversations of the memories and energies held in material through movement and time, opening a portal with history in the present. University of North Carolina, 2024
From Here, 6’x8’x6”, A movement drawing on a platform made of found wood from Durham, NC, Chapel Hill, NC, and The Bronx, NY. Created through a series of tap dance performance conversations between Michelle Dorrance and Byron Tittle at Duke Univ., Cassilhaus, and the Nasher Museum of Art. Commissioned by Duke Arts in partnership with Cassilhaus, The Nasher, and American Dance Festival. 2022
From Here, documentation image of Michelle Dorrance and Byron Tittle performing live, creating “From Here” at the Nasher Museum of Art. The full final work is compromised of four components, performance that lives in its temporality, object, video, and recorded audio. 2022
From Here, performance documentation of Michelle Dorrance and Byron Tittle creating the work at the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, NC. 2022
4’x12’, movement drawing created by Carol Parker’s movements on a layer of ground hand burnt charcoal dust and ash on paper. Created during the Rubenstein Art Center Visiting Artist Residency, Duke University, 2021
documentation image. Carol Parker dancing on ground charcoal dust to create the work. Rubenstein Art Center, Duke University, 2021
documentation image. Carol Parker dancing on ground charcoal dust to create the work. Rubenstein Art Center, Duke University, 2021
60”x55”x6”, A movement drawing on a platform made of found wood from Durham, NC, Chapel Hill, NC, and The Bronx, NY. Created through a series of tap dance performance conversations between Michelle Dorrance and Byron Tittle. The work was created in Arnold’s Queen’s, NY studio. 2021
A video work capturing the creation of Shifting Energy with Michelle Dorrance and Byron Tittle in Queens, NY. Filmed and edited by Arnold. 2021
Installation arrangement of the two final components of Shifting Energy exhibited at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2023. These components are re-contextualized and placed in different arrangements depending on the space decided upon for the work